Our reviewer, Ander Monson, called this "a complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story".
These pyrotechnics balance the tender moments, creating a complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more than the sum of its component parts, and smart and tragic enough to engage all regions of the brain and body.
are neighborhood characters who are a basket of enjoyables and a complex and brainy heroine".
For rappers who've frequently been labelled as dumb – the thicko ying to Kendrick Lamar's brainy, complex yang – the lyrics come across as remarkably sharp and funny.
What we said: "For rappers who've frequently been labelled as dumb – the thicko ying to Kendrick Lamar's brainy, complex yang – the lyrics come across as remarkably sharp and funny," wrote Alexis Petridis, in his lead review for the Guardian.
Though still brainy, complex and original, his works became more lucid, graceful, even whimsical, like the wonderful "Two Diversions" for piano (2000) that Ursula Oppens played brilliantly on the Weill Hall program.
Her reading taste runs to Marguerite Duras and Clarice Lispector — women who are brainy, sexy, complex, unmanageable.
And the 17-minute piece — though brainy and complex, like all of Mr. Carter's scores — was somehow celebratory: lucidly textured, wonderfully inventive, even impish.
A brainy viewer might read complex theories about Modernism in architecture and photography into the work, but the pictures themselves remain mute and inert.
Actually, the excerpts from "The Rat Land," Mr. Beeferman's opera, with a libretto by Charlotte Jackson, sounded complex and daringly modern: in a way, the brainiest score of the six performed on Saturday.
Thursday's bright, attention-grabbing, commercial but unexpected and brainy collection is the kind of solution a complex brand like Prada is looking for.
